I'm planning to read from chapter 7 of Tracing Paradise, the one titled "Clear-Cuts." I hope it goes over okay with this crowd because, while it certainly does deal with environmental degradation, it also avers that humans (or least this human) are not only complicit but likely to remain so. As I was rereading the chapter this morning, I was glad, once again, that I'd quoted Thomas Hardy's dry comment: "it is only the old story that progress and picturesqueness do not harmonise."
The old story indeed.
Dinner tonight: pot au feu, I'm thrilled to say. And maybe apple pie.
2 comments:
You really are a funny writer. That is quite a collection of readers. Chapter 7 is perfect. I had my students read your paragraph on Harmony as an example of how to write about place.
As for your comment to me, that is precisely the problem isn't it. The one we have been talking about. I may well Hate her, or worse, find her tedious and conventional and not at all noteworthy. But maybe not.
I hope you find your new mystery writer wonderful. Maybe she'll be like my Milly Jourdain find. And for anyone who wonders what we're talking about, read Charlotte's blog. She's working on a book about Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley and is unearthing forgotten players.
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